Indium Tin Oxide Nanowire Arrays as a Saturable Absorber for Mid-Infrared Er:CaSrF Laser.

Nanomaterials (Basel)

CAS Key Laboratory of Transparent and Opto-Functional Inorganic Materials, Synthetic Single Crystal Research Center (SSCRC), Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China.

Published: January 2022

We demonstrated a passively Q-switched Er:CaSrF laser with indium tin oxide nanowire arrays as an optical modulator in the mid-infrared region. In the Q-switched regime, the maximum output power of 58 mW with a slope efficiency of 18.3% was acquired. Meanwhile, the minimum pulse duration and highest repetition rate of the stable pulse trains were 490 ns and 17.09 kHz, corresponding to single pulse energy of 3.4 μJ and peak power of 6.93 W, respectively. To the best of our knowledge it was the first time that indium tin oxide nanowire arrays were employed as a saturable absorber to make pulse lasers carried out at 2.8 μm. The experimental data show that indium tin oxide nanowire arrays can be employed as a competitive candidate for saturable absorber in the field of mid-infrared solid-state lasers.

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